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DundeeDoll

Why you should not clean your room

Situations of greater entropy are statistically favoured. Things that are statistically favoured tend to happen, especially over time. A disordered room has greater entropy than an organized one. Thus an organized room will tend to become disordered over time. The only way to reverse this is by continually putting in energy from an outside system (i.e. making the effort to clean your room regularly)

HOWEVER, at some point a disordered room will be maximally entropic. At this point, continually failing to clean one’s room will not generally result in a more disordered state. Thus no additional input of energy is needed to maintain the state of the room

Therefore cleaning one’s room is futile - a task for the modern day Sisyphus. It is much more energetically efficient to allow the room to stay at its natural, maximally entropic state towards which it will always tend (and to expend that energy on more interesting things)

This_Year

DundeeDoll wrote: »

Therefore cleaning one’s room is futile - a task for the modern day Sisyphus. It is much more energetically efficient to allow the room to stay at its natural, maximally entropic state towards which it will always tend (and to expend that energy on more interesting things)

Like looking out the window, stroking the cat, dunking choccy biscuits in a cuppa, planning next holiday

momofmonster

well my new bed is coming tomorrow and i haven't even started sorting my bedroom - i haven't even thought of starting!! So i may have to temporarily relocate the floordrobes to various cupboards/wash basket/etc and the ironing board/wardrobe needs to be put away somewhere (like hidden behind the closed door of the living room for a short while) just until the lovely chaps delivering my bed have been and gone. Also as my old bed is a divan and has a hole in the side i must at some point locate the hidden treasure that my 4 year old has stashed away in there!! ;D

luxor4t

I would just like to announce that all my ironing is done.

Before you throw me off the thread, I ironed as a defence against having to do worse stuff ... much worse stuff, like cleaning the stairs, the bath, sorting out the garden...oh, and cooking.

if you stand behind the ironing board you look busy. And if anybody gets to close you can repel them with clouds of steam and warning about the heat. And you can watch TV while ironing, slowly.

torbrex

Successfull day for me, I went to bed last night reminding myself that it has been nearly a month since I ran round the house with the hoover and that I should really do it today as I had nothing else planned.
Well what do you know, the sun has been shining all day and it has been just too nice to go kicking up all that dust and have it twinkling in the sunlight so I have found a new excuse not to do the hoovering

To my shame though, I did do a bit of tidying up out in the garden, do I lose points for that?

Sally_A

My odd sock bag is 3x the size of my matched socks in drawers.

How does that happen?

monnagran

Sally: They breed. Didn't you know that?

You can all hang up your excuses and avoidance tactics, I have been tackling the bed-sit of one of the men who comes to our drop-in centre. An awfully nice chap who hasn't the slightest idea that floors are meant to have little spaces here and there to put your feet on and that burnt-on grease on cooker hobs is not supposed to be so old and so thick that it hides teaspoons and that dust and dirt clinging to grease is not a good look for the fronts of cupboards. Neither does he seem to be aware that washing up is best done more frequently than once a month....or two months.........or six months.... and that changing bed clothes is not an annual event.
I'll draw a veil over the cobwebs dotted with fossilised flies, the curtain rail hanging drunkenly by one fixing, the piles of old dust laden cardboard boxes reaching from floor to ceiling and spilling their contents, the cat-food encrusted bowls on floors and any horizontal surfaces that have a space left on them and the sheer DIRT everywhere.

So sorry, none of you are in the running for 'Slob-of the Year', so you might just as well pack your bags and steal quietly away into the night.

As I said, he is such a lovely man and deserves better than this so I have gone into battle.
One thing, when I get back home my beloved hovel looks immaculate, and I think what a great little housewife I am.

Result!

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Sally_A

aww Monnagran - he must be my long lost twin!

I love a tidy, sparkling house - I just don't like doing the work to get it that way!

torbrex

I fell off the wagon again today, I washed the windows :eek:

Credit where its due though, I only washed the ones that I actually look out of

(hoovering still not done yet :T)

mcculloch29

Monnagran, I can identify with that. I have a friend with some mental health issues and years ago I helped her with cleaning when she asked for help. I couldn't do it now as my arthritis is too severe, but she hasn't asked. TG.
You just have no idea what some houses are like until you go into a place like that. What you said... and more. I used to get home from doing her place, look around and the following day, clean like crazy to stop myself getting like that. I was always too knackered the same evening.